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Old 17 December 2003, 11:18 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Appealing to you modellers that have been doing WW1 a/c for awhile. I'm looking for a good match for the Fokker Dr.1 underside "turquoise" Either a recommended brand or a favorite recipe. The Gunze RLM65 I have still looks too blue to my eye; it seems to need something more. TIA

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Old 17 December 2003, 11:50 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Rick, in my humble, start there and mix down to something lighter.
RLM65 is too vivid as well as too blue.

In event, it ain't turkwazz, which has about a billion interpretations.

Look at photos and take a best guess. Mk 1 Eyeball. A technical device.

If ever there was a German PC-10, this be it . . .

(then there's always "Imperial Purple"...)
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Old 17 December 2003, 12:35 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Add R.A.F. "Sky Type S" to light blue until you get a greenish-blue colour. The Turquoise colour used on DR 1 was a light colour and not a dark one.
I agree with Barker - the exact match for Turquoise is as difficult to find as the R.F.C. Dark Green!
 
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For those who may be interested, Joel Robinson sent me his formula off-line using Testors' colors. I mixed it and it looks very promising to me, definitly more "greenish" than the Gunze RLM65.

50% #1722 Duck Egg Blue, FS 35622, Testors Model Master Military Colors
30% #1108 Light Blue, Testors small bottle 1/4oz
20% #1716 Pale Green, FS 34227, Testors Model Master Militray Colors.

As I said, it looks more like the turquoise I was hoping for, and the colors are easily available in my area.

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Old 22 December 2003, 12:43 PM   #5 (permalink)
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That looks like a good mix for for Turquoise color- thats the colour that it should be - a light bluish green colour.
 
 

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